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Position: Conversational AI Chatbot Developer
Location: Hartford, CT(Hybrid-3 Days Onsite2 Days remote)
Duration: 12+ Months Contract C2C
Position Summary
You will make an impact by:
Ability to design and develop AI conversations with responses coming from outside APIs via cloud function or integration with other systems
Applying clean coding skills and best practices
Collaborating with user interface designers and backend application integration teams to understand the mechanisms through which the conversational AI solution will be used and what is needed to fulfill intents
Collaborating with teams and other developers to design, develop, test, deploy and maintain a chatbot
Troubleshoot bots, debug, and deploy chatbots on various channels (voice/chat)
Leveraging AI, NLP Technologies and cognitive machine learning to develop chatbot applications
Integrate chatbot solutions with multiple platforms
Enhancing user effectiveness of the conversational agents with the help of advanced technologies
Continuously develop knowledge of emerging technologies and analytics techniques and support the pursuit of business development opportunities
Tuning and enhancing Speech to Text models
Required Qualifications
5+ years software delivery experience
3+ years of Chatbot development experience with IBM Watson Assistant, or any other similar chatbot conversational AI tool (i.e Google Dialogflow CX, LivePerson, Amazon Lex, Kore.ai)
3+ years training and improving intent recognition by curating the appropriate training data sets
3+ years applying Conversational AI best practices (e.g. NLP and training data best practices)
1+ years of experience in CICD, Git, unit-testing and source code management
1+ years of knowledge of cloud development and deployment principles
1+ years of working in an Agile environment, with knowledge in DevOps approaches, end-to-end software development processes and business requirements
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with working on watsonx Assistant and watsonx Orchestrate
Backend (server side) development experience either in Java, node.js
Multi-language background and experience working with programming languages such as Python, Java, Javascript/Typescript
Experience with IBM Voice gateway and / or IBM Discovery is a plus
Knowledge of automated speech recognition, including SSML tagging for TTS